Albanian teams in Europe 25-26

With memories of the golden years (80's) of the albanian football still fresh on her mind, Albania is now attempting to recreate its strong football legacy. As young players start making their names abroad, the future is looking bright for Albanian football!

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Simboli i Diellit
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Even the Albanian's team of Decici Montenegro competes better than the Superliga teams in Europe.
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Vllaznia scored a pen in the 85th minute and all they had to do was hold on for a few more minutes..... and they conceded a minute after. It would've been a huge upset to be fair because the Iceland team looks much more professional and fit.

Egnatia and Dinamo advanced at least but it will be super tough for them to qualify. Dinamo also just sold their best players.
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Vllaznia fought well, they got a tough draw. Nice to see the other two teams advanced, but as Dallku says, Dinamo just sold a couple really good players for them, right before these games, so it doesn't look like they are prioritising this run much.
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Simboli i Diellit wrote: Thu Jul 31, 2025 10:11 pm Even the Albanian's team of Decici Montenegro competes better than the Superliga teams in Europe.
Albanian owners have zero ambition. They just sign cheap African players and sell as soon as they get 300 or 400k for their best players. Albanian teams will never be able to qualify in Europe for as long as the owners will run the team for a profit, which is such an absurd thing to do in this weak of a league, but its what happens.

In reality Albanian league would do much better if they signed some of the fringe NT guys who are floating around Turkey 2nd division, Croatia, Macedonia etc. A 'new Skenderbeu' can easily be created, but it needs an owner to bankroll it to get started (they would surely make the money back in future).

Albanian owners and Albanian football in general doesn't have that type of vision though so we will not see that happen.
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